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On v20.02 some APIs matured and symbols moved from EXPERIMENTAL to DPDK_20.0.1 block. This had the affect of breaking the applications that were using these APIs on v19.11. Although there is no modification of the APIs and the action is positive and matures the APIs, the affect can be negative to applications. When a maintainer is promoting an API to become part of the next major ABI version by removing the experimental tag. The maintainer may choose to offer an alias to the experimental tag, to prevent these breakages in future. The following changes are made to enabling aliasing: Updated to the ABI policy and ABI versioning documents. Created VERSION_SYMBOL_EXPERIMENTAL helper macro. Updated the 'check-symbols.sh' tool, which was complaining that the symbol is in EXPERIMENTAL tag in .map file but it is not in the .experimental section (__rte_experimental tag is missing). Updated tool in a way it won't complain if the symbol in the EXPERIMENTAL tag duplicated in some other block in .map file (versioned) Signed-off-by: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ray Kinsella <mdr@ashroe.eu> Acked-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> |
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| abi_policy.rst | ||
| abi_versioning.rst | ||
| cheatsheet.rst | ||
| coding_style.rst | ||
| design.rst | ||
| documentation.rst | ||
| index.rst | ||
| patches.rst | ||
| stable.rst | ||
| vulnerability.rst | ||